tangor - 11:08 am on Apr 6, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Google is trying its best to ward off privacy watchdogs by asking Buzz users to hit rewind on the creepy real-time service. The company, keen to be seen to be doing the right thing, is asking users to reconfirm their privacy settings - to make sure that they’re not spooked by the level of information they're giving away. Google aggressively slotted Buzz into Gmail earlier this year. Within hours of Buzz’s unholy arrival, the ad broker was shot to pieces by angry users for its ungraceful efforts to turn a free online email service into something more akin to Twitter and Facebook.

[theregister.co.uk...]